Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
64 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199373 filingsthrough 2026
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0567 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: DID NOT LOBBY SENATE Professional Staff - House Resources Committee - 1991-1997 House Budget Committee - 1997-2001 Professional Staff - Senate Energy and Natural Resources - 2014-2017 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy - DOI - 2001-200
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: northern-california-water-association.
17 filings
$340K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$300K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
115th Congress
New WATER Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2473116th CongressSecuring Access for the central Valley and Enhancing (SAVE) Water Resources Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1060114th CongressSacramento Valley Water Storage and Restoration Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1894114th CongressCalifornia Emergency Drought Relief Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2960116th CongressMaking appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
36 filingsthrough 2026
George Michael MillerThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Counsel, Office of Rep. Robert Matsui, 2/1991-10/1994 Leg Correspondent, 9/1986-6/1987 and 5/1985-12/198536 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY 2/2011-5/2012.30 filingsthrough 2022
Lane H. DicksonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Clerk, House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water & Power, 5/2005-1/2007; Special Assist. Bureau of Reclamation, 2/2007-12/2007; Sr. Professional Staff Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee 3/2017-3/2021; NOT LOBBYING SENATE21 filingsthrough 2026
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Appropriations; civil Engineer at Corps.16 filingsthrough 2012
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson Group14 filingsthrough 2011
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A12 filingsthrough 2020
Christopher James GriffinThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 1/2021 - 3/2022 Legislative Aide for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 6/2020-1/2021 Staff Assistant for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 8/2018-6/20209 filingsthrough 2026
